Lehn Benjamin, PhD
Associate Professor

Lehn Benjamin is an Associate Professor at the Lily School of Philanthropy at Indiana University at Indianapolis.  Her work is principally concerned with inequity and her research examines issues of accountability and effectiveness in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining the faculty at the school, she spent 10 years on the faculty at George Mason University, where she taught courses on nonprofit management, public management, and performance measurement. Her. Her current projects explore these issues by looking at the daily work of frontline staff in nonprofits and the experience of the people they serve. In this work she seeks to understand how participating in these nonprofits affects the health and political efficacy of citizen-clients. Although most of her current research focuses on human service organizations, as an urban planner who has worked in both governmental and grassroots organizations as well as at a policy level, she is also interested in broader community development and governance questions.

Mary Kay Gugerty, PhD
Professor

Mary Kay Gugerty is the Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Nonprofit Management and the Faculty Director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington. Her research examines evaluation and impact measurement in the social sector; advocacy, accountability and voluntary regulation programs among nonprofit and NGOs; and community-based organizations and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Gugerty's new book, The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Sized Evaluation and Monitoring for Social Sector Organizations is co-authored with Dean Karlan and published by Oxford University Press.

Angela Fertig, PhD
Social Policy Research Scientist

Angie Fertig is an economist and faculty member in the social policy area at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the health of vulnerable populations (e.g., mothers and children, the homeless, the food insecure, and Medicaid enrollees) across the lifespan. Her research largely involves longitudinal data and econometric techniques in order to provide persuasive evidence about causal mechanisms.  Her methodological expertise includes applied econometrics, longitudinal data analysis, time use data analysis, health care claims data analysis, survey research, survey validation methodology, ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data analysis, and economic evaluation/cost analysis.

Fertig received her PhD in Economics from Brown University and her BA in International Relations from Stanford University. She conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University and has previously held faculty positions at the University of Georgia (in the Schools of Public Affairs and Public Health) and Indiana University (in the economics department).  

Nicole Marwell, PhD
Associate Professor

Nicole Marwell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, faculty affiliate of the Department of Sociology,  faculty fellow at the Center for Spatial Data Science, and member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. Her research examines urban governance, with a focus on the diverse intersections between nonprofit organizations, government bureaucracies, and politics. Her approach draws on an interdisciplinary set of insights and tools from sociology, organization studies, ethnic studies, political science, and public administration.

Stephanie Moulton, PhD
Associate Professor

Stephanie Moulton is an associate professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, a faculty affiliate of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, and a visiting scholar at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. Her research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of housing and consumer finance policies and programs, with an emphasis on vulnerable population. She is the principal investigator on a multi-year analysis of reverse mortgage borrowers, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and the Social Security Administration. She also conducts research on state housing finance agencies (HFAs), including homeownership programs and state administered foreclosure interventions. She has served as principal investigator for numerous research studies estimating the impact of financial interventions on household outcomes, including evaluations with the National League of Cities, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Moulton was a 2014 postdoctoral honoree with the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Moulton received her PhD from Indiana University.

Jennifer Mosley, PhD
Associate Professor

Jennifer Mosley is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. She researches the role of nonprofit organizations as political actors, specifically the role human service organizations, community-based nonprofits, and philanthropic foundations play in advocating for or implementing policy change that affects underrepresented populations. She is particularly interested in the relationship between advocacy and improved democratic representation and how public administration and nonprofit management trends, particularly within collaborative governance and contracting, affect the public policy roles of nonprofit organizations.

Robin Phinney, PhD
President, Rise Research

Robin Phinney is the President of Rise Research, a research and evaluation firm. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching focus on American politics and social policy, with an emphasis on interest group advocacy, the policymaking process, and the well-being of low-income families. Robin brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her research, which has been published in leading journals of political science, public policy, and social work. Her book on collaborative lobbying and social policymaking is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Robin taught courses in American politics, public policy, and research methods at Brown University and the University of Minnesota.

Chris Silvia, PhD
Associate Professor

Chris Silvia is an associate professor in the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in quantitative decision analysis, public sector service design and delivery, and collaboration and intergovernmental relations. 

Dr. Silvia’s research examines the leadership behaviors exhibited by leaders in intersectoral networks. In addition to focusing on leadership, his broader research agenda includes work in the areas of collaboration and the application of Service Dominant Logic in the context of public and non-profit service delivery. He received a PhD in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.He also received a Master of Public Administration from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Utah.